09-28-2019, 10:44 PM
Sorry, Chrome crashed as I was writing up a final report full of wit and repartee.
As I said, the injury delay, which was probably at least 15 minutes, completely neutralized what had been a brobdingnagian amount of momentum in favor of Stanford. The very play the injury happened was the third corner in the first 8 minutes of OT by Stanford, and Beason got a header in front of the player (Andruzzi?) who got injured coming down after trying to defend Tanner. Beason's header hit the inside of the right post and came away.
The best chance after that was after a horrendous turnover by Waldeck, who didn't have a great game. In OT, he hit a lazy cross out to Beason on the left after a restart, directly into the path of the Gaucho's most dangerous player. The end result was a shot that Thomas parried away, giving up the last good chances of the game to a Gauchos corner.
Waldeck also got burned badly by Michael, the Gauchos' big threat, on the third UCSB goal. Marking about 25 yards out, bites on a move inside, then pulls up and relaxes, beaten, as Michael hammers a wide-open 22 yarder that wrong-footed Thomas and snuck under the bar.
Thomas, by the way, had several spectacular saves. He gave up a bad first goal, not coming out to go after a ball that ended up squirting between him and the post on a backheel from about four yards out. The second he could do little about. But he stoned a breakaway, and had several other point-blank stops.
All in all, a disappointing, if not undeserved, result. Yes, they came back twice, but they also went down twice. And they came so close to pulling it out until an opponent injury completely stopped the game in its tracks, and never had a chance to develop much rhythm again.
VG
As I said, the injury delay, which was probably at least 15 minutes, completely neutralized what had been a brobdingnagian amount of momentum in favor of Stanford. The very play the injury happened was the third corner in the first 8 minutes of OT by Stanford, and Beason got a header in front of the player (Andruzzi?) who got injured coming down after trying to defend Tanner. Beason's header hit the inside of the right post and came away.
The best chance after that was after a horrendous turnover by Waldeck, who didn't have a great game. In OT, he hit a lazy cross out to Beason on the left after a restart, directly into the path of the Gaucho's most dangerous player. The end result was a shot that Thomas parried away, giving up the last good chances of the game to a Gauchos corner.
Waldeck also got burned badly by Michael, the Gauchos' big threat, on the third UCSB goal. Marking about 25 yards out, bites on a move inside, then pulls up and relaxes, beaten, as Michael hammers a wide-open 22 yarder that wrong-footed Thomas and snuck under the bar.
Thomas, by the way, had several spectacular saves. He gave up a bad first goal, not coming out to go after a ball that ended up squirting between him and the post on a backheel from about four yards out. The second he could do little about. But he stoned a breakaway, and had several other point-blank stops.
All in all, a disappointing, if not undeserved, result. Yes, they came back twice, but they also went down twice. And they came so close to pulling it out until an opponent injury completely stopped the game in its tracks, and never had a chance to develop much rhythm again.
VG